The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1917, Page 6

| WATE res ye U SATURDAY, DEC. 15, 1917. | REL Have we Boys US THEIR. SOCKS IN FE HERE FOR TH XMAS GIFTS TVE GOT FOR'EM|, PROVE ANT ANANANNASNACNNNTIVONUCUNTEONOUI ETTORE HING; HERE'S "DARTMOUTH VS. PITTSBURG the question is exhumed) and made to Every football seasc of comparative scores and brought forward prove almost anything. Under the. system Podunk College may have a better team than the rec- ognized champions when the season{ is over, regardless of the fact that, Podunk has only played one team of any strength and that early in the sea- here:is a striking example this year. No critic would claim that Dart- mouth could win from Pittsburgh, yet comparative scores would have it that the Green is fully as strong as Glenn Warner's Panthers, Yet, . according to comparative gcores, the dope would be something Yke_ this. W. & J. gave Pittsburgh the hard- est game of the season, holding them to a 13 to 10 Score and almost tying the score by a field goal which failed by inches. The week before W. & Jy was defeated by West Virginia.7 to, 0, and a week or so before that Dart- mouth defeated West Virginia 6 to 2. Another way of looking at the same situation is that while Dartmouth did not permit West Virginia a touch- down, Pittsourgh had nine points scored against her by the mountain boys. There are two main reasons whyi comparative scores are worth] In the firs! e some football teams improve faster than others. Some gain their full strength early in the season while others do not. The other reason, which is most important is that most coaches be- gin the season by pointing their teams toward one or two important games, usually late in the season. In their efforts to reach the maximum power at that time they often play early games with substitutes and do not uncover plays and formation with! which they might win or pile up big scores. TOO INDEPENDENT TO. HANGE CLUB $0 _ GLVMER STAYS IH MINORS The reed of a manager for the St. Louis Cardinals brings up the old question of why Bill Clymer, manager of the Louisville Colonels has not been considered for the berth. Clymer is perhaps the most success- ful or minor league managers, For years he has piloted teams into the first division of the merican Associa- tion and the International League. Never has he fallen below “third place. number of times his teams have won. » t Louisville last year he took an apparently hopeless club and brought it through a winner. Before that he had piloted a Toronto team to the top of the heap. And that particular Tor- onto team looked the poorest in the league. Clymer’s independence probably, has a great deal to do with his failure to cet in the majors. , Bill would not ask for a job and if one were offered him, conditions would have to be just so before he would consent to sign a contract, Bill would expect to dictate the pol- icies o fhis club rather than turn this responsibility over to the magnate. Magnates, as a general rule, are in- clined to be jealous of their preroga- tives, and this may be the reason Clymer has never landed higher than the bushes. fare A showdown was looked for be- tween John Tener and Garry Herr- man. With both of them dealing from cold decks it couldn't have been very jinteresting. There's only four aces jeven in a cold deck. Freezing to death is said to be an easy death. That may be one reason some People take up ice yachting. Star was an also ran in a Havana race. Someone probably hitched their wagon to him. Ban Johnson hasn’t talked, much about exempting ballplayers lately. Wazza matter, Ban? Cold feet? The six-day bike race in New York is finished but suckers won't have to. wait a whole year to get a chance to bite on something almost as bad. A jrassling tournament is scheduled. Sport Gossip Kast aLnsing, Mich., Dec, 13.—Coach T'rewer of the Michigan Aggies’ foot- ball eleven is looking forward to 1918 with two happy realizations. His team can’t do any worse than it did this year when it failed not only to -Win a game but did not earn a touch- down until the closing game with Syracuse. Brewer also is cheered by the fact .that he had a pretty fair freshman eleven this year and that it was strong where the ‘varsity was! weak, i. e., in the backfield. Graves, Mueller and Noblet proved fine ground fainers and they are expected to try seek game in the sprints. Cuthbert, a middle distance runner, has a fine high school record. In the field events prospects seem almost hopeless. Waterloo, Ia., Miner league baseball is “sick” and needs a long rest in the opinion of Frank Eoyle, a veteran manager, who has served several sea* sons in the Central association. Boyle can see no relief for the game until} the end of the war. “Even if it is necessary to drop the sport for two or three years, it would come back all the stronger,” Boyle said. “Deprive red :blooded Americans of the game for a couple of years and they would be wild to support it. “I may be wrong, but I do no think many minor leagues will ‘attempt to start next spring. It will be a good thing for the sport.” Minneapolis, Dec. 14—Paul Flinn, the speedy end on the University of ‘Minnesota football eleven, is going to. join the natiot’s fighting force. Be- fore leaving the university, Flinn told friends that he planned to enlist in the artillery ‘at Duluth, his home. Flinn was drafted, but his name was so far down in the list that he was not called. He was picked by some critics for a place on the All-Western eleven this season and was regarded as tho logical choice as captain on the 1918 Minnesota team. SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL REFUSES TO PASS ORDERY TO MPEAGH MAYOR GIL Seattle, Wash., Dec. 15—7he Seat- tle city council by vote of five to for the team next autumn. Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 13.—Michi- Fan's track team has started its in-| door work and Coach Farrell now qi} knows what a blow the war dealt him. Practically every man Farrell counted upon to make up his relay teams is serving his country. The fate of the track squad rests with the new material. Scofield, Butler, Huntington, Hard- ell, and Fox were counted upon for the mile relay. None of them is in college. | Farrell has only about a dozen men. Three of these are stars—Moeller, _the hurdler, Donnelly, the distance runner and Captain Sedgwick. of the cross-country team, who established a new local record. for the five mile jaunt. Froemke, a football player, will try out in the dashes. Johnson, who was on the freshman team, also will three today declined to adopt a reso- | lution containing impeachment charges against Mayor Hiram C. Gill. The resolution charged that Mayor permitted disorderly establish- ments to remain open, permitted gam- bling, failed to close dance halls, al- leged to be nuisances, and allowed the use of his name in connection with , the Merchants’ -Protective Corpora- ‘tion, said to be a collection agency. Today’s action brought to an end one move of citizens who have been working for Gill’s impeachment as a ' means of having military authorities remove the order barring Camp Lewis soldiers from visiting Seattle. , |Wanted—Gunnysacks at Gussner’s. i Cures Colds in South Africa LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tab- lets remove the cause. E. W. GROVE’S signature on box. 30c. GOSH SAKES (@GIE; WHUT DIDJUH DO THAT ?- OH-I o TOM TTT — DROPPED 4 CRANIL -CASE: ONT AN? HAD TO HAVE \T Toby changes his xmas plans LHAD THIS SOCK, MADE. FORITSO T WOULDN'T Cart! COLD INIT! ay — i} | By PAUL PURMAN. | ‘The old axiom of sport “They can't ceme back” is faced with a new theor-. lem in 1918 baseball. “They must ‘come back.” , It is on the chances of the old stars 'coming Hack that haseball magnates ‘are busing their hopes now. ! { those men who have reached ithe end of the road in ordinary times la great many will hear the call to fill {the ranks deleted by war. | The following mea who have been jout of baseball for a few seasons, or who have heea retained as coaches probably will have a chance to s whether or not they can come hack. Infielders—Larry Lajoie, Hans Wag- ner, Hans Lobert, Joe Tinker, Jimmie Viox, Jay Kirke, Clyde Engle, Leary, Steve Yerkes, Harry Lord, John tfum- ;mell, Jacsques Fournier, Von Kolnitz, Art Phelan and George Stovall, Outfielders — Sam Crawford, Birdie j Cree, Olaf Hendrickson, Wade Killifer, Ham Hyatt, Fred Snodgrass and oth- ers. Catchers—Tom Clarke, George Gib- son, Jimmie Archer, Sweeney and Dooin. It is a usual rule that when a pitch- er is through he cannot make good on another trial. Yet these aro a few pitchers back in the big minors who might» come in mighty handy this year. Vean Gregg led the .Interna- tional League last year and might be ready for a,comeback; Fred Falken- burg probably has a few good games in his head if he’ hasn't in nis ancient arm; Nap Rucker might be coaxeil back to the big show for another try- out. It is likely two bench managers. ot last year will be coaxed into ‘he game. Matthewson declares he will get into Shape and pitch if he finds it neces- sary, and Miller Huggins proba will be found on the field if the Yan- kees run short of infielders. It is bound to be a dull winter for writing obituaries of old-timers. Few of the veterans will be released’ this year. John Evers may retire on ac- count of poor health, but the others who (probaly would have been’ side- tracked this year had the year been normal, undoubtedly will be found back in fast company again. ~WRTINGCBTUARY FOR OLD AL PLANES DEAD ISSUE © TAS YEAR Q TERS WML STH | IRISH PATSY CLINE LOOKS nard’s lightweight title. - While it is admitted that Leonard has a toe hold on the championship which he is not likely to le loose of for some time, it is not believed that ' Leonard would have such a_ cinch with Cline as he has had with the other boys he has been matched with. It took Chine a trifle over a minute to knock out Jimmiet Paul in Rhode Down east they are grooming Irish Patsy Cline fora try at Benny Leo- LIKE BEST ASPIRANT FOR LEONARD'S CROWN Island not long ago, and while Paul is not a world beater, he has been considered a mighty tough boy to dispose of and knocking him out in less than a round {s not to be sneered at. In the meantime Leonard has gone | along at top speed. usually ending his j bouts with the referee counting 10 over his adversaries and making the knockout records of other recent lightweight champs look like 1896 egg prices. watching thé victim under the ama- teur barber's hands. Amusements are scarce and time for them scarcer. Here, however, a game of cards is going on, and near it in their dougout doors men are writing letters or reading. A few of them have pet birds and many a dog wanders about. “The police chase the dogs out of the villages,” said our offificer-guide, “go they wander out here to us strike up firm friendships.” Work takes most of the men’s waking hours. Guns and equipment must ‘be cleaned. New trenckes are being dug, old ones repaired. Duck- boards are being laid and drainage systems dug. On our way out through the maze of trenches we suddenly turn a corner and come on the postman making his rounds, with his hands full of letters id for delivery. oa bith aes cf attaining Success. Unless you already pos: *NIGHT FOR HUNTING, DAY FOR SLEEP.” IS ONE RULE OF THE FRONT TRENCHES By K. W. Paynes | spending three days in various parts With the British Armies in the Field | of the trenches and at times under Dee. 14.—Tommy’s habits of life in the | fire. « front line trenches—what are they? The trenches I visited are typical of To find out just what life in the| the ones where our soldiers may take front line trenches under fire is going | up their residence. to be like I was given the privilege of; ' On a quiet day in the line the dan- Outbursts of Everett True BY CONDO MR: SVS RTAR SIR 8 YOUR REGULAR RS= | PUTTANCE HAS NOT BEEN RECEIVED TO DATE. THIS 18 NO DOVBT: AN OVERSIGHT, AND TRUST ~ THAT YOU WILL GIVE IT YOUR ATTENTION. ; sateretes TRULY, « BROWN & Co. Now, IF ANYBODY ASKS You WHY You've SOT THE DARK GYE TELL THEM IT'S BECAUSE You | HAVE THE HABIT OF FORGETTING To MAIL OUT CHECKS To OUR CREDITORS AND PUTTING US IN THE CLASS OF BANKRUPTS AND SLOW PAY You HAVE ONE GUOD EYE LEFT, SO GET BUSY 4 AND SCRIGGLE A CHECK FOR BROWN & Ce, j i ; communication trenches, he stumbles! ,| ed after ger is greater a mile or more behind |. than it is in the trenches themselves. No matter how great a lull there may be at the front, Fritz is pretty certain to shell with heavy stuff the cross- roads and fields ‘through which our men. must approach the communica- tion trenches. \ Kipling’s “Law of the Jungle,” is one rule of trench life. “Remember that night is for hunting and forget not that day is for sleep.” As one plods endlessly through the What you save will be TM By e. Bank with the Cloc. You may he debating jin your mind the, question as to what is the best means for you to employ in there is only one answer, and that is save and: be ready for opportunities that are sure to come. ally end the debate in your favor. TheFirst National Bank BISMARCK. N.D: aT sess a large sum of money the factor which will fin- over the feet of men sleeping behind curtains in their dugouts. At night’ these men may go out into No Man’s Land to hunt the Boche. We pass groups of plodding men bent, sweating, but cheery, under loads of supplies for the front line. Some bear on their backs great iron arches and girders to help in dug-out construction. Others are carrying boxes of ammi-| nition, bombs, pails of water, and ket-; tles of stew. Peeping over the trench parapet one sees all around merely a) broad grayish-green slope which is ab-; solutely deserted and is dusted here and there with the black clouds of ex- ploding shells. But here underground the whole hillside is alive with subter- ranean activity. It is as though one had penterated into a titanic anthill. On the way to the front trench we pass a certain headquarters. Snugly ensconed in a big dugout entered through a door in the trench wail, a group of officers are dining. There is, a clean white tablecloth spread, and aj variety of good food is offered the guests. One officer leads the way to a much deeper dugout down many steps, : where he sleeps. It has white ceilings and walls, the latter covered half-way up with burlap. ‘A bed and a Morris chair a phono- | graph and records on one table, books and papers on-another, a typewriter, telephone, maps, and a rough carpet on the floor make it seem more like al comfortabie bungalow than a dugout. And all outside is a waste of mud and rambling ditches where these officers and their men are kcurly on the verge of death. ‘The trenches are occasionally nam-| some of the world’s best known streets and avenues. One sign points the way to a sniper’s post and | another to the stretcher bearers. At the entrance to the front line | trench a sign reads, “Keep your head down and your heart up.” All about us in the trenches were groups of men engaged in various du- ties. Some were bathing. Others were; sewing on buttons or cleaning boots. of the trench was serving as bar An up-ended box square in the mid- MR. - if you want Kind Just U dle of one trench was serving as bar- BUSINESSMAN— Help of any se a Want ad IN THE TRIBUNE ber’s Se a a facetious group was inl acces enteceeaemmommmmne , ¢ a ant 9 f ; 7s bas \ Pi . ie *